# Introduction
The best way to share a partition with Linux is to create an EXT2 filesystem and use revision 0 (aka GOOD_OLD_REV) as the filesystem format. By using the GOOD_OLD_REV (revision 0) format you can avoid the _dir_index_ and _large_file_ issues encountered with DYNAMIC_REV (revision 1).
# Example
Here is an example of how you can create, format and check an EXT2 filesystem using the Linux native tools:
# mkfs -t ext2 -r 0 /dev/hda3
# fsck -C -t ext2 /dev/hda3
# tune2fs -c 20 -i 6m -L Share /dev/hda3
# fsck -C -t ext2 /dev/hda3
# tune2fs -l /dev/hda3
If you want to use the revision 1 ext2 fs format it is possible but you need to format it like this:
# mke2fs -I 128 -L "Choose a name here" -O ^dir_index,^has_journal -v /dev/partition
(you can get mke2fs from the e2fsprogs package).
Partitions formatted this way are compatible with the windows and OS X ext2 drivers:
[http://www.fs-driver.org/](http://www.fs-driver.org/) [http://ext2fsx.sourceforge.net/](http://ext2fsx.sourceforge.net/)